[OpenAFS] openafs on iphone

Karl Kuehn larkost@stanford.edu
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:55:06 -0700


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On Mar 16, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Alberto Paoluzzi wrote:

> have the main developers of OpenAFS considered a participation to  
> the 100 million dollars contest,
> http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/business/apples_big_talk_business_janet_whitman.htm
> , with a project of bringing both kerberos and openafs to the apple  
> iphone?

	The money is not a contest, but is an investment pool. People who  
have ideas that they want investors ("angels") to help fund can apply  
to the fund. Open Source projects would probably not be welcomed  
(unless you can come up with a way of making money from it).

> The SDK  seems to open the whole OS to developers, and I believe  
> Apple would be very happy for the deal.
> It would be a huge achievement for both the iphone platform and the  
> openafs community ...
> What do they think about?

	The main problem with AFS on the iPhone is that programs are limited  
to accessing only their own files (they are isolated from other  
programs). So an OpenAFS project on the iphone is probably feasible,  
and you could bring over files onto the iPhone, but no other programs  
could then use those files.

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		Karl Kuehn
			larkost@stanford.edu
			Mac Image Developer
			Student Computing
			Stanford University


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